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"War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is."

"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."

"The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war."
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"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."


"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."


"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."


"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."


"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."


"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."


"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty.""


"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
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